An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.